Today in History - History - May 25th

1969Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational

201146th Academy of Country Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Brad Paisley wins

1986KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit

1965Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title rematch

1979"Alien", starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, is released

1980Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic

1973George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK

1922Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump

1927Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford

1959Khrushchev visits Angola

1969Anne Heche, Aurora Ohio, actress (Donnie Brasco, Juror, Volcano)

1907Rachel Carson, conservationist/writer (silent springs)

1926Bill Sharman, Abilene Texas, Hall of Fame basketball player (Boston Celtics)

1939Ian McKellen, England, actor (Keep, Plenty, Scarlet Pimpernel)

1803Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston Massachusetts, American essayist/philosopher (Concord Hymn)

1889Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft

1957NFL coach Chuck Noll (25) weds first wife Marianne Noll

1661King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Braganca

1965Boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson (44) weds Millie Bruce in Los Angeles

1901Russian physician, dramatist and author Anton Chekhov marries actress Olga Knipper

1898Chocolatier Milton S. Hershey (40) weds Catherine Sweeney at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City

1940MLB outfielder Stan Musial (19) weds his high school sweetheart Lillian Labash in Daytona Beach

1919Madame C. J. Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 51

1954Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)